Re: [Wonder-disc] Dodgy default rule?

[David L. <dle...@co...>]

On 18-Jun-09, at 5:41 AM, Mark Jackson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm just putting together a ERD2W App, and came up against the  
> following 'funny' on an Edit page :
>
> The Entity being edited has a mandatory Attribute, which is modelled  
> as follows (DB = MySQL)
>
> 	columnName : 'maxNumberOfWidgets'
> 	name : 'maxNumberOfWidgets'
> 	prototypeName : 'intNumber'
>
> However, the following default rule for the componentName gets fired
>
> 10 : ((task = 'edit') and (session.javaScriptEnabled <>  
> (java.math.BigDecimal)'1') and ((smartAttribute.className =  
> 'com.webobjects.foundation.NSTimestamp') or  
> (smartAttribute.allowsNull = (java.math.BigDecimal)'0'))) =>  
> componentName = ERDEditDatePopup
>
> From: ERDirectToWeb.framework/Resources
>
> This immediately causes a ClassCastException, since, of course, the  
> ERDEditDatePopup expects an NSTimestamp.
>
> It seems that because the Attribute doesn't allow null, the " or  
> (smartAttribute.allowsNull = (java.math.BigDecimal)'0'))" clause  
> fires the rule.
>
> Of course, I can add my own overriding rule to correct this, but I  
> had expected the default rules to work 'out of the box'.
>
> Wonder Version is from 17th June.

Mark,

Not sure what the original intention of that clause is, but I have a  
feeling that the 'or' should be an 'and'.

I'd file a bug in Jira.

;david

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